Buhari Paying More Attention To Borno State – Gov Shettima

Governor kashim Shaettima of Borno state has said his state has started feeling the impact of the Muhammudu Buhari led administration. 

Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima

Speaking while breaking Ramadan fast(Iftar) with some internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Maiduguri the governor said: “We have started feeling the impacts of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.”

There are 22 IDP camps established in the Borno state capital.

‎The governor broke his fast at the camp located at Yerwa Girls College in Maiduguri. He was in the company of the Emir of Bama, Alhaji Kyari Ibn Ibrahim Elkanemi who became a displaced person after a Boko Haram attack on Bama in 2014.

Shettima spoke ‎‎‎after the ‘Iftar’ to  the displaced persons in English and Kanuri languages saying since Buhari’s inauguration he has been working silently to fund activities across the 22 IDPs camps in Maiduguri.

he said the norm under former president Goodluck Jonathan was to leave states with the responsibility of taking care of the welfare of the IDP camps and its inhabitants.

According to This Day, the governor said: ‎“We have started feeling the impacts of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.  For instance, from 2013 when we started establishing camps for displaced persons in Biu for the people of Damboa and to the number of camps we have now, the Borno State Government solely bore the biggest burden of funding these IDPs’ camps until a few days ago.

“Today, with the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Federal Government, through the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has taken over so many responsibilities in these camps and this is how it ought to be ab initio. Today, under the Buhari administration, we have a NEMA that has accelerated its presence in Borno.”

The governor also expressed his desire to rebuild his state following months of destruction of buildings, offices, houses and more by the Islamist sect.

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He said: “As we continue to pray for the return of peace in this state, I urge all of you here today to exercise more patience and endurance of being displaced for many months from your destroyed homes and communities. We assure you that with this relative peace, this administration will commence the rebuilding and rehabilitation of all the destroyed communities immediately after this Ramadan.

 “The Shehu of Bama has just briefed me about the gradual return of peace in his chiefdom to commence the rebuilding of the 90 per cent destroyed town. Even the water supply facilities which had been destroyed and poisoned by Boko Haram insurgents last September, are to be completely rebuilt by either sinking of new boreholes or dig cement wells to meet people’s water supply requirements for domestic and industrial uses.”

Shettima also said: “The priorities of the Borno State Rehabilitation and Rebuilding Committees (BRRC) will be on the totally destroyed towns of Bama, Baga, Monguno, Gwoza, Gambouru, Kukawa, Damasak and Mafa in central and north parts of this state. Thereafter, the other affected villages and communities adjourning these towns and council headquarters, will simultaneously follow, including villages and settlements on the foot of Mandara Mountains in Gwoza Local Government Area.”

Borno state is one of many states in the country that has been affected by insurgency. However through months of intense battle, the Nigerian military has been able to kill most of the insurgents in the state.

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